OLD FASHIONED CURE FOR HICCOUGHS
NEW YORK. The American Ambassador, Mr. Lew Douglas, telephoned his New York doctor from London this week to ask for a cure for hiccoughs. "Hold a paper bag close to your face and blow into it,” was the old-fashioned remedy suggested by the doctor. “Hold it over your nose and mouth so .you inhale and exhale the same air," the doctor added. An hour later Douglas made a second call to New York to report that he was cured.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 3
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84OLD FASHIONED CURE FOR HICCOUGHS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 3
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